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First World
noun
- the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of First World1
First recorded in 1970–75
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Example Sentences
“We live in a mobile-first and cloud-first world,” Nadella wrote in a memo on July 10.
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In a nationwide broadcast, Correa bitterly complained of first-world indifference.
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Its affably glib opening lines set the tone while acknowledging the First-World-problems aspect to the text.
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Brazil is transforming itself, from third-world to first-world.
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Dom Phillips reports on the bloodbath—and how Brazil imported a first-world problem.
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